nelz wrote:Can't you tell LVM to ignore your optical drive? Chances are, the config (/etc/lvm/lvm.conf) already does this but uses the name for a PATA drive. Check the filter line in lvm.conf.

I did try that at first, but after an upgrade, LVM seemed to start ignoring the lvm.conf file. No idea why, I did research this on the net and the configuration I did to stop it trying to include my SATA Optical Drive should have worked but didn't.

In any case, the whole thing is far snappier now. I have one 500Gb hard drive so LVM is better of not there for me.

There's obviously been some fairy dust involved though, I've done an rpm -qa on my old system and loaded nearly every package I had, and then some, nearly all the system services are turned on, and it still seems quicker.

I actually think that this mini-me justifies the praise in LXF101 more than PCLOS2007 did!

]]>2008-01-09T08:43:59+00:002008-01-09T08:43:59+00:00http://www.linuxformat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7242&p=54163#p54163Statistics: Posted by hecatae — Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:43 am
]]>2008-01-09T00:32:13+00:002008-01-09T00:32:13+00:00http://www.linuxformat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7242&p=54153#p54153Statistics: Posted by nelz — Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:32 am
]]>2008-01-08T23:36:59+00:002008-01-08T23:36:59+00:00http://www.linuxformat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7242&p=54151#p54151Minime does not seem to include LVM, I've installed it a spare partition, with LOADS of software from synaptic, and even though it's basically an updated version, for this and other reasons the whole thing seems more snappy and more stable (not scientific, just my perception).

]]>2008-01-08T22:34:32+00:002008-01-08T22:34:32+00:00http://www.linuxformat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7242&p=54147#p54147I'm thinking of wiping my current pclos2007 install and installing mini-me 2008, simply because there is so much on the full install I never use.

This new version contains "ndiswrapper" and a number of shortcuts to enable you to get certain awkward wireless cards working.

This is in a Utilities folder which also contains shortcuts to add ATi/Nvidia drivers, ALSA setup, Make Live CD, Make Live USB stick, and Redo MBR (if Windows ate your master boot record and broke access to installed Linux). Also to setup your Clock.

This means that ONLY the keyboard selection pops up when booting the live CD.

Another major change is that you are not prompted for root and user passwords during installation of the Live CD, this is done on first bootup instead. There is no longer an option not to have a root password.

What I would recommend to users in the UK is that you run Synaptic once you have got your internet connection working, and change the default repository using "Settings > Repositories" to a European one, Belnet, nl.freebsd or Heanet especially, you will get faster download speeds that way. Default is ibiblio which can be slow from the UK.